Romulus is a Rom Manager.

Get it here --> http://romulus.net63.net/

10 / 04 / 2012

 

Another Romulus version is here ...

 

Romulus is being version by version a serious alternative to other known Rom Managers. With more than 20,000 lines of code and hundreds and hundreds of hours of coding time I wish people continuing trying this tool and talking about it.

 

What's new of 0.014 version ???

 

- ADDED Filter option button at Generator to make selections to export at Generator list. This is useful for example to split a DAT making the selection of "(USA)" text save the DAT and invert selection to save a DAT with the rest of regions.

- ADDED in Scanner menu at right hand buttons panel a new button to jump to current directories at Windows Explorer.

- ADDED in Scanner at Sets list popup menu an option to jump in Windows Explorer to selected set.

- ADDED in Scanner at Sets list popup menu an option to extract to selected directory or desktop the selected set.

- ADDED in Scanner at Sets list popup menu an option to make an Smart search in Google of selected set.

- ADDED French language at Settings option. Thanks to Kaito Kito for translation.

- ADDED correct decoding for special chars at Google searches.

- ADDED Webbrowser middle mouse button hook to open clicked link in a new tab.

- ADDED Silent control of exceptions. Now exceptions will not be showed.

- CHANGED Compiler with a third party. Seems is more accurate and makes best use of memory.

- CHANGED Romulus main window is restored when application is minimized and the processing panel used when load a dat, sending to generator, etc terminates.

- CHANGED in Webbrowser when trying to open a link if only one tab exists and is about:blank then not open a new tab, opens at current one.

- CHANGED When enter to a Tedit control automatic is selectall.

- CHANGED at importation a control of extensions for Samples and CHD files if this not exists then will be added *.WAV and *.CHD.

- CHANGED Removed the current community trading unused code for decrease the size of application. Maybe in future if is needed will be re-added.

- CHANGED added custom popup menu to Tedit controls. Copy, Cut, Paste and Selectall.

- CHANGED Webbrowser navigator url bar is set to green if is a secure connection url.

- UPDATED CHDMAN to 0.145u5.

- UPDATED RAR to 4.11 version.

- UPDATED Unrarlib to 4.11 version.

- UPDATED Ziplib to 1.2.6 version.

- UPDATED CHDMAN params to work with the last version of CHDMAN necessary to check the last CHDs files.

- FIXED a bug that can not recover the last focussed control when changing of main menu tabs.

- FIXED some cases RAR multivolume files with comments as not valid RAR files.

- FIXED counting SETS and ROMS at end of Scan / Rebuild for large profiles.

- FIXED random cases not showing modal Windows and application freezes.

- FIXED at directory maker problems when no ROMs exists in profile and checks now for CHDs and SAMPLES.

- FIXED exportation to HTML and open it in Romulus Webbrowser if is set as default.

- FIXED Webbrowser font size selector, now is set with trackbar the size of font and not zoom that needs more CPU usage and can freezes the application.

- FIXED Webbrowser search for text not writing to HTML the highlight code, now makes search selecting the current text found and is need to push the next button for next match or prior button.

- FIXED Webbrowser problems destroying tabs that sometimes hangs and closes the application.

- FIXED Webbrowser problems showing properties option.

- FIXED Webbrowser memory leaks that can hangs or make application crashes. Now webbrowser is more stable.

- FIXED Webbrowser some problems getting favicon, now is more fast and works in secure webs (HTTPS).

- FIXED transparent default icon at tabs.

WinArcadia 18.01 (Windows): 17 April 2012

AmiArcadia 18.0 (AmigaOS 3): 15 April 2012

AmiArcadia 18.0 (AmigaOS 4): 15 April 2012

AmiArcadia 18.0 (MorphOS): 15 April 2012

Super Bug Advance 1.3 (GBA): 11 September 2009

AmiArcadia and WinArcadia are multi-emulators of these machines:

* Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand,

Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy,

Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) (1982);

* Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Fountain, Interton,

Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Voltmace, Waddington, etc.) (c. 1978);

* Elektor TV Games Computer (1979);

* PIPBUG-based machines (Electronics Australia 77up2 and 78up5, Signetics

Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (c. 1977-1978);

* Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);

* Central Data 2650 computer (1977);

* Astro Wars, Cat and Mouse, Galaxia, and Laser Battle coin-ops by

Zaccaria (1979-1982);

* Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1980);

* Chaos 2 computer (1983);

* Dolphin trainer (1977);

* PHUNSY computer (c. 1980); and

* AY-3-8550-based Pong systems (c. 1976).

Features include: ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, windowed and full-

screen modes, CPU tracing, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics

scaling, automatic load/save of configuration/game, keyboard/joystick/

gamepad/paddle/mouse/trackball support, autofire, turbo mode, gameplay

recording/playback, PAL/NTSC modes, sprite demultiplexing, help windows,

source code, debugger, frame skipping, redefinable keys, save screenshots

(4 supported formats), ARexx port, network play, real-time monitor, locale

support, game selection sidebar, text-to-speech, printer output,

undithering, support for ZIPped games, clipboard support, palette editor,

tone retuning, high score management, force feedback, sprite editor, 3D.

The supported languages are currently English, Dutch, French, German,

Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Changes since V18.0:

* Bug fixes (WinArcadia only).

No release of AmiArcadia 18.01 is needed or planned.

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/

http://amigan.yatho.com/

http://mess.redump.net/downloads

Note that the standard main menu will freeze solid, if you scroll off the start or end (this is a bug carried over from MAME). The command line or a front end is ok.

System Driver Changes:

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-pmd85: added support for loading .ptp cassette images. [sandro Ronco]

-apple2: Apple II slots rewrite [R. Belmont]

All Apple IIs that had slots now have them in MESS except the IIgs.

Slot 0 has one available card: the language card (which it defaults to)

Slots 1-7 can have any of the Mockingboard, CFFA2000, and Disk II cards.

By default a Mockingboard is in Slot 4 and the Disk II is in 6. Due to current limitations only one Disk II controller per machine will work, but multiple CFFAs and Mockingboards should work great. The plain 6502 firmware version of the CFFA2000 is now supported so you can use CHDs with the emulated II Plus and unenhanced IIe as well. 5.25" disks are broken on the IIgs at the moment; I'm looking into it.

-iskr1030: Year/manufacturer fixes. [AntoPISA]

- Apple II updates [R. Belmont]:

-- Improved C800 arbitration

-- Cleanup and more documentation

-- New working card: Apple II "Slinky" 1 MB Memory Expansion Card

-- New non-working card: Apple II SCSI Card, Rev. C

- Apple IIgs: User-configured slots now available. Boot 6.0.1 and use the Slots Control Panel to set the desired slots to Your Card to use. [R. Belmont]

- Apple II: Support AE RamFactor card (clone of Apple Memory Expansion) [R. Belmont]

- Apple II: Fixed C800 banking with INTCXROM and implemented RamFactor card ROM banking. RamFactor diagnostic (g Cn0a in the Monitor) now works.

- Apple II: RamFactor cards now have 8 MB capacity each [R. Belmont]

- Apple II: Even more slot ROM arbitration work. 80 column mode works on IIe again, and AppleWorks 3 no longer crashes on boot. [R. Belmont]

- Apple II: Allow slot 3 to be used by cards on II/II+. [R. Belmont]

 

 

Software Lists:

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- x07.xml: Added memory cards softlist. [Anna Wu, Sandro Ronco]

- apple1.xml: added a few more tapes [Anon01]

- a800.xml: added some new dumps and confirmed more dumps [K1W1]

 

Source Changes:

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- Fix for feature name xml output in softlist [bobz]

- m68k improvements: [Hans Ostermeyer]

-- Fixed BFINS, BFEXTU, and BFEXTS to fetch 8-bit quantities as 8 bits (corrects Domain/OS 10.3.5 crash on page boundry)

-- Added SoftFloat log functions and m68k FLOGNP1, FLOGN, FLOG2, and FLOG10 instructions

- uPD765: fix Apollo floppy read/write problems [Hans Ostermeyer]

This one has a considerable number of bugs... it may be worthwhile waiting for the next release.

The source patch is here --> http://mamedev.org/updates.html

0.145u6

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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

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- 04741: [sound] xmen: Instruments in the music are playing back at the wrong volume (hap)

- 02675: [sound] rdft, rdft2: Music used in the boss levels of Raiden Fighters and Raiden Fighters 2 play (Mssion 1-3, 2-3) slower than the original. (Sonikos)

- 04734: [Crash/Freeze] tylz: Crash after OK (Pugsy)

- 04743: [Crash/Freeze] pzloop2jr1: Black Screen (Tafoid)

- 04735: [Crash/Freeze] breywood, shackled: Black screen (stephh)

- 04737: [Original Reference] ckong: correct manufacturer found for Crazy Kong (Falcon?)

 

Source Changes

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Change DirectInput joystick acquisition method to be non exclusive. [bdam]

 

toaplan2.c: Correct the video (character layer) offset for 1945 Part-2 (Chinese hack of Battle Garegga) [Dave Haywood]

 

dc: Fix the maple hookup and controllers and add the missing maple irq [O. Galibert]

 

galaxia.c: Improved colors and hooked up cvs stars circuit. [hap]

 

Hooked up TMS9928 and PIA devices to Baby Pac-Man video CPU, gives some gfx if you press the service switch [Angelo Salese]

 

pgm.c: Continued refactoring of the protections, including improved notes. Moved some code into the states and split states by protection type. [David Haywood]

 

Set the correct cpu in mpu5.c driver and split a few alternate revisions into clone sets. [David Haywood]

 

Decrypted the rest of the gambling sets in igs_m027.c. No further advancements in visible emulation to report, though. [iq132]

 

Redumped sound roms in funcube2 and funcube3 [Guru, Yasuhiro Ogawa]

 

Improved irqs in Little Robin, and added preliminary sound to it [Angelo Salese]

 

model2.c: Added the I/O Controller rom (Z80 based) for Rail Chase 2 [brian Troha, The Dumping Union]

 

Converted gamtor.c to use VGA device (doesn't work though due of a weird banking problem) [Angelo Salese]

 

m68k: add preliminary on-board peripherals to 68307 and 68340 [David Haywood]

 

SDL: Fix formatting of chdman man page [wallyweek]

 

Allow compilation with compatible system-installed versions of libjpeg and libflac [wallyweek, R. Belmont]

 

Solved the remaining issues with Raiden 2's sprite decryption. [Andreas Naive]

 

Major driver modernization changes [Miodrag Milanovic]

- Added 4th parameter to all address maps

- Added missing state classes

- Removed ADDRESS_MAP_MODERN define

 

rastan.c: Add dipswitch locations to the Rastan sets. [brian Troha]

 

namcos21.c: Added Namco game prefix to the Winning Run 91 set. Added minor documentation about the System21B two board stack. [brian Troha]

 

nmk16.c: Fixes some issues and cleaned up the video sources a bit [trap15]

 

Fixed ymf271.c core timer allowing for greater accuracy. [sonikos]

 

BFM Scorpion 4 Hardware: [David Haywood]

* General update which fleshes out some of the 68307 code (not 100% correct hookups, just improved logging and enough to get us somewhere).

* Added various devices to the SC4 emulation, added a default layout showing the VFD, to which most of the earlier games will now write 'Initializing'. Timers and other devices still need to be implemented properly before they actually initialize.

* Put the actual SC4 hardware emulation in drivers/bfm_sc4h.c so that it doesn't get lost in the swamp of sets (scrolling through a file is quite hard when it's almost entirely set definitions)

 

mirax, miraxa (mirax.c) [stephh] :

* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the Z80 code)

 

Implemented flip screen support to Mirax [Angelo Salese]

 

galdrvr.c: Added preliminary protection emulation to Monster Zero. [hap]

 

Moved all drivers to using the paletteram helpers defined in the driver_device base class. The palette base is now specified via an AM_SHARE of "paletteram" or "paletteram2". The driver_device base class now finds these pointers and places them in m_generic_paletteram_8/_16/_32 and m_generic_paletteram2_8/_16/_32. [Aaron Giles]

 

Removed machine.generic.paletteram*, and machine.generic entirely. Removed AM_BASE_GENERIC/AM_SIZE_GENERIC as they don't apply anymore. [Aaron Giles]

 

Changed required_/optional_shared_ptr to support set_target with base and size for manually configuring a shared pointer, and a new allocate method for dynamically allocating (and registering the memory for save states). [Aaron Giles]

 

Converted memory_private to memory_manager and moved global memory operations into methods on it. Converted the less-popular cases over in drivers that used them, leaving the bank management APIs global for now. [Aaron Giles]

 

Add logic to ensure that shared pointers are checked to be of the right width. The primary upshot is that if you declare AM_SHARE("paletteram") in an 8-bit memory map, then only m_generic_paletteram_8 will be populated, and m_generic_paletteram_16 will be NULL. But it applies to all required_/optional_shared_ptrs declared, so make sure they are of the right type. [Aaron Giles]

 

Added code to cdrom.c to compute and verify ECC codes for mode 1/2 sectors. [David Haywood]

 

Added CD compressor template which separates subcode data from sector data, removes redundant ECC data prior to compression, and uses separate compressors for each part. Defined LZMA and ZLib CD compressors based on this and made them the default for CDs. [Aaron Giles]

 

Redumped sprites rom of lhzb2 [Guru]

 

Decrypted sprites in lhzb. Decrypted tiles and palette in lhzb2 and slqz2. Added inputs and memory maps in these games, pending protection simulation [Luca Elia]

 

Move driver list/enumerator to new file drivenum.c/.h. Move game_driver definition and constants to new header gamedrv.h. [Aaron Giles]

 

wldarrow.c: Added service inputs, allowing battery RAM to be initialized in test mode, making the games close to playable. [hap]

 

namcos10: Fix banking for Mr. Driller 2, first stab at the encryption [O. Galibert]

 

misc sc4/68307 updates + prelim peripheral hookups, allows most sc4 sets to run their sound rom checks [David Haywood]

 

rastan.c: Cleaned up Parent/Child order. Corrected ROM names and added additional information / notes. [brian Troha]

 

 

 

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

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Fun River [sara S.]

unknown Japanese horse gambling game (preliminary) [hap, Paul Swan]

 

 

New clones added

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Rastan (US) [stefan Lindberg]

 

 

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

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Quiz Show [hap, Siftware]

Dragon World Pretty Chance [smitdogg, Tjeerd Carter]